New Ulm weekly review., 1887-09-14
DAKOTA TERRI TORI j NEWS

UlAhVlA lfikftI IJklALNEW
Richard Johnston, q pioneer and
prominent business man, was buried
at Canton with Odd Fellow ceremo-
MES. Delegates from the Sioux Falls
and Cantonlo lodges were in attendance.
Geo-lP. Martindale, OF Faulkton,
has failed s.
Friends OF the discharged officers say
that both Colonels Webb and Brown,
OF the governors staff, got wet and
caught cold while attending to their
duties at the Huron encampment,
and that they went up town and took
something to brace themselves up.
At Blunt, the county commission
ers were compelled by q second petit
tion of four hundred names to order
| a vote on the local option question
at the approaching November cleo
| tion
The prohibition question will be
submitted to the people OF Hughes
county this fall, the commissioners
have granted the petition. The petit
tion submitted last June was rejected.
The Manitoba railroad has reached
Watertown. I'll
Bishop Marty, of Yankton, who
has been at Sioux Falls, to purchase
property for the location Of the con-
! vent, bought tor the Catholic society
the beautiful residence and grounds oi
A. G. seney, for that purpose,
At Grand Forks, the marriage OF
Herman Goldstein to Rosa Gruen.
berg, both Russian Jews, called to,
gether about a, 900 people The
couple, headed by a cornet band and
followed by 200 people, marched
through the principle streets, the
walks on either side being thronged
with spectators. After the ceremony
about three hundred people spartook
OF supper. 5
The second annual meeting Of the
Pharmaceutical Association Of South
Dakota was held at Sioux Falls.
The report of the secretary OF
the territorial board Of phar-
macy showed over four hundred
registered pharmacists in South Da.
kOta. Numerous ballots were
taken for the president and secretary
OF the association for the ensuing
year. Theelection resulted as follows:
President, W. S. Broach, Parker;
first vice president, A. A. Bartlett,
Madison; second vice pres ident, v.
u. Dlehl, Scotland; secretary T. "A.
Keith, Lakpreston; treasurer, T.. T..
Dunning, Sioux Falls. The associa.
ton adjourned to meet in a two days
session at Huron Aug. 21, 1883.
At ST. Thomas, the threshing engine
OF Robert McAdams exploded, killing
Frank Stephenson OF Winnipeg, fatal.
ly injuring Halvor Bjornson and tear.
ing an arm from James McAdams.
Dennis Kinzy, a member of the
threshing crew working near Ojata,
while coming to Grand Forks on a
Manitoba freight train was run over
and killed. 8
Secretary Lamar has modified the
comissioner's decision holding the en-
try OF w. McMasters for the southeast
quarter of section 20. township 124
range 81, Aberdeen district, for can.
collation. SO as to allow McMasters to
make new proof. The secretary holds
that absence during a winter when nc
work can be done need not impair res
idence. l.. M. Pressler made pre-emp
tion entry of the southeast quarter o
section 27, township Ill, range So,
Huron district. After residing sever
months on his land, his wife being af
Hlcted with cancer, he moved to Miller
so that she could have medical atten
tion. Sparks heldthatth this was chang,
OF residence, and held Pressler's entry
for cancellation.
Two OF the three prisoners servin.
time in the United States wing of th,
territorial penitentiary atsioux Fails
escaped recently. Deputy Warden
Moulton was the only officer on duty
at the time and was locking them in
their cells, when the convicts threw
blanket over his head and gagged and
bound him. The names of the escap.
ed prisoners are Henry Esmond, in
for ten years for mail rob bbery, and Ed
Powers for: murder. The latter was q
soldier from Fort Meade.
Ex-Governor N. G. Ordway has pre-
sented to the University OF North
Dakota at Grand Forks, handsomely
Autographed copies 81 two letters re.
ceived by him while governor, from
Prince Otto Won Bismarck. chancellor
OF the German empire, on the occasion
OF the letter receiving notice that
.Dakota's capital seat was named irs
his honor.
President McLouth ofthe Brookings
Agricultural college that owing to I'M
avoidable delays in finishing the
buildings. the opening of the fall term
OF the Agricultural college IS deferred
till Wednesday, September 21.